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    1. [VALEE] To correct or not to correct the Early Settlers
    2. GEN-PICS
    3. I agree with you about the data needing to be corrected. However, as a person who has published a book with Gateway Press I can tell you it is a monumental task. Unless some one person comes forward and will rewrite the book it won't ever be changed. And, you would have to pay them as this would not be an easy task. I have personally written to several well-known publishers about the incorrect and inaccurate books that they are reprinting in the 21st century. Those of us from the last century know which ones they are. Some were even used by lineage societies as references back then. The indirect relpy was money. They said the genealogy people would sift through and decipher the mistakes this century like they did last century. Well, I hate to disagree with them, but the advent of the computer has changed all of that. When those books are put online the same thing happens. People have told me I must be crazy because if those books were as wrong as I claimed, then they wouldn't put them online. E

    06/11/2002 01:41:50